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Ben
Ben

Reputation: 57209

Visual Studio - building different releases for assemblies with the same name

I've got a plugin for a third party software, and I reference their assembly - let's call it Api.dll.

Each year, Api.dll is updated. I'd like to support versions from past years.

Since the assembly name is the same, I can't just add them all and use a compile time flag - I have to manually remove, add, rebuild.

How can I automate this build process better, so I can build all the versions that I need at the same time, pointing to the appropriate version of the same-named .dll?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 50

Answers (1)

DavidG
DavidG

Reputation: 118937

I would do this with build configurations. If you create a config for each version, you can edit your csproj file like this:

<Reference Include="v1/Api.dll" Condition="'$(Configuration)'=='Release Api v1'" />
<Reference Include="v2/Api.dll" Condition="'$(Configuration)'=='Release Api v2'" />
<Reference Include="v3/Api.dll" Condition="'$(Configuration)'=='Release Api v3'" />

Doing this will change the library being referenced depending on the configuration.

Additionally, if you need specific code per version, you could add in some compilation symbols for each configuration and use #if ...

Upvotes: 3

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